1. “I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don’t apologize, that’s my life.” – Marlon Brando
2. “Never tell outside the family what you are thinking.” – Marlon Brando
3. “An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.” – Marlon Brando
4. “A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults.” – Marlon Brando
5. “There’s a line in the picture where he snarls, ‘Nobody tells me what to do.’ That’s exactly how I’ve felt all my life.” – Marlon Brando
6. “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” – Marlon Brando
7. “I was forever being sent to the principal’s office to be disciplined.” – Marlon Brando
8. “I only mean forty per cent of what I say.” – Marlon Brando
9. “Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have.” – Marlon Brando
10. “If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn’t like me, I’ve got to get out.” – Marlon Brando
11. “The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.” – Marlon Brando
12. “Only the one who walks his own way can’t be overtaken.” – Marlon Brando
13. “I don’t stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.” – Marlon Brando
14. “America has been good to me, but that wasn’t a gift.” – Marlon Brando
15. “In being a loving son, I suppose I was trying to become a loved son.” – Marlon Brando
16. “I thank you for not snoring.” – Marlon Brando
17. “Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.” – Marlon Brando
18. “The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.” – Marlon Brando
19. “Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.” – Marlon Brando
20. “If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.” – Marlon Brando
21. “I don’t know what people expect when they meet me.” – Marlon Brando
22. “I have eyes like those of a dead pig.” – Marlon Brando
23. “I can still taste that first beer I bought with my own paycheck.” – Marlon Brando
24. “Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger.” – Marlon Brando
25. “Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.” – Marlon Brando
26. “An actor’s a guy who, if you ain’t talking about him, ain’t listening.” – Marlon Brando
27. “Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel too much.” – Marlon Brando
28. “This is no fantasy, no careless product of wild imagination.” – Marlon Brando
29. “I don’t see anybody as evil. When you start seeing people as evil, you’re in trouble.” – Marlon Brando
30. “Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?” – Marlon Brando
31. “Every spring the meadow in front of the house became an ocean of canary-colored mustard blossoms, and when a wind came up, it was like watching a sea of rippling golden waves rising and falling with the breeze like breakers just before they pound into a reef.” – Marlon Brando
32. “What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.” – Marlon Brando
33. “I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.” – Marlon Brando
34. “The pursuit of the material has become our reason for living, not enjoyment of living itself.” – Marlon Brando
35. “All we have is now.” – Marlon Brando
36. “Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.” – Marlon Brando
37. “I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.” – Marlon Brando
38. “The Jews control Hollywood and use it to promote their own agenda.” – Marlon Brando
39. “The principal guiding feature of all interviews today is money.” – Marlon Brando
40. “If I spill, my life ain’t worth a nickel.” – Marlon Brando
41. “Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing.” – Marlon Brando
42. “We don’t go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go!” – Marlon Brando
43. “It really don’t matter what you’re thinking about, as long as you’re thinking about something.” – Marlon Brando
44. “Acting, in general, is something most people think they’re incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I’ve ever seen is by ordinary people trying to show they feel something they don’t, or trying to hide something. It’s something everyone learns at an early age.” – Marlon Brando
45. “Everybody ought not to turn his back on the phenomenon of hatred in whatever form it takes.” – Marlon Brando
46. “Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.” – Marlon Brando
47. “Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we’re acting. Most people do it all day long.” – Marlon Brando
48. “I don’t mind that I’m fat. You still get the same money.” – Marlon Brando
49. “Regret is useless in life. It’s in the past. All we have is now.” – Marlon Brando
50. “I don’t think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don’t think it’s the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed into as many females as possible.” – Marlon Brando
51. “If we are not our brother’s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.” – Marlon Brando
52. “The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.” – Marlon Brando
53. “If you’re successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you’re unsuccessful it’s worse than having a skin disease.” – Marlon Brando
54. “Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.” – Marlon Brando
55. “It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.” – Marlon Brando
56. “Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.” – Marlon Brando
57. “I’m getting too old for this nonsense.” – Marlon Brando
58. “I got a scar on my knee… and uh a few scars on my soul.” – Marlon Brando
59. “Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.” – Marlon Brando
60. “We’d all like to be certain of what we know, but I think the most important question is to ask yourself do you really know what you know?” – Marlon Brando
61. “I realize that to forgive with your mind is not always to forgive in your heart.” – Marlon Brando
62. “If you’ve never known love, you never know where it is, you don’t know what it looks like or it sounds like, you look in the most unlikely places to find it.” – Marlon Brando
63. “Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.” – Marlon Brando
64. “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” – Marlon Brando
65. “We only have so many faces in our pockets” – Marlon Brando
66. “If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.” – Marlon Brando
67. “All I want to be is normally insane.” – Marlon Brando
68. “This is a false world. It’s been a struggle to try to preserve my sanity and sense of reality taken away by success.” – Marlon Brando
69. “Privacy is not something that I’m merely entitled to, it’s an absolute prerequisite.” – Marlon Brando
70. “People don’t want to lose their enemies. We have favorite enemies, people we love to hate and we hate to love. If they do something good, we don’t like it.” – Marlon Brando
71. “It’s the hardest thing in the world to accept a little success and leave it that way.” – Marlon Brando
72. “Never hate your enemies, it affects your judgment.” – Marlon Brando
73. “Even today, I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can’t help it, but it is troubling.” – Marlon Brando
74. “The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money.” – Marlon Brando
75. “Sometimes you just get the feeling that here it is 11o’clock in the morning and you’re not in school.” – Marlon Brando